ive been using this i5 haswell with 16gb ram since 2013 and im looking for advice on what kind of older and used hardware i can cheaply cobble together as a replacement. my current setup and use is running 3 monitors off my RX470 GPU, heavy browser use with tons of tabs/youtube/PWAs, dev environment, and VMs. i do very little to no gaming. i mainly run KDE Neon but have a dual boot setup with win10 for fusion 360.
i guess my requirements would be something with at least 64gb of ram and something that can perform equally or better than than the i5 haswell. i dont really care if its a server mobo based but i already have dual opteron boards that i wouldnt touch because they have crazy idle wattage. id say DDR3 and PCI-E 3.0 would be a base as well.
i see so many version of SM boards and Intel CPUs that im not really sure where to start.
i guess my requirements would be something with at least 64gb of ram and something that can perform equally or better than than the i5 haswell. i dont really care if its a server mobo based but i already have dual opteron boards that i wouldnt touch because they have crazy idle wattage. id say DDR3 and PCI-E 3.0 would be a base as well.
i see so many version of SM boards and Intel CPUs that im not really sure where to start.